Championship Predictor (3 Viewers)

[mark82]

Managed to find the old BBC Championship predictor site and have been through and put in the results as I see them & I think we will stay up. Have a go yourselves, take a screenshot of the final table and share the results. I will paste the image of mine when I'm on a proper computer. Here is the URL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/predictor/default.stm

 

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[kg82]

Thought I was pretty fair, but you never know on these things (I also can't do a screenshot)! So I had West Ham winning it on 95, Southampton 2nd with 90, then Reading, Cardiff, Birmingham and Blackpool in the play offs in that order and relegated were Donny, Bristol City and Millwall with us surviving by one place and one point on 43. So that's not taking into consideration Pompeys troubles too.

 

[Otis]

Ohh dear.


Just did it.


Have;

19th Forest 48 points
20th Peterborough 47 points
21st Bristol City 45 points

22nd Portsmouth 42 points
23rd Doncaster 41 points
24th Coventry 40 points


:facepalm::facepalm:

 

[Otis]

Had West Ham and Reading in the two automatic promotion slots. Southampton 3rd.

Ohh, and thought I was very fair.

 

[kg82]

It's all subjective isn't it so everybody's is bound to be different. To be fair, I gave us a draw at Bristol City and beating Pompey - I think we're capable of those results but I'm not confident but I thought I'd give them those. I had us drawing against Palace, Blues and Bristol City with wins against Pompey, Peterborough, Millwall and Donny.

 

[Otis]

I too had us to draw against Bristol and Palace and beat Pompey.

Had us to lose against Brum though.

 

[shmmeee]

Out of interest did any of you put us down to win a game away?

 

[kg82]

Out of interest did any of you put us down to win a game away?

I didn't, no. In fact, I think I had us only getting 1 more point away from home, so anything more than that this season is a bonus in my opinion.

 

[Lord_Nampil]

See i don't like doing these predictors they always turn out different! When we are riding high we normally predict the play offs when we are doing badly we all predict relegation, (I have done it in previous seasons and been wrong every time) let what ever happen happen each game as it comes kinda outlook on the games! If you start predicting suddenly you become some kind of Nostradamus and even he got stuff wrong!

Its fine to do it btw just think at the moment we need to just take one game at a time and in doing so back them 100% what ever issues we have with the management and owners!

 

[Houchens Head]

I agree Lord_N! I predicted the six winning numbers for last weeks lottery and not one came up! Predictions? Hmpfff!

 

[MatthewWallis]

Mine came out like this....

1st West Ham 97 points
2nd Southampton 92
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3rd Middlesbrough 87
4th Birmingham 85
5th Reading 84
6th Blackpool 79

And


21st Coventry 44
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22nd Doncaster 44
23rd Peterbrough 43
24th Portsmouth 42

I had us staying up on goal difference after winning all our home games apart from Birmingham and getting a point at Hull

 

[Houchens Head]

Hmmmm.... Matthew. West Ham not dropping a single point until the end of season? I don't think so. And Southampton? Only dropping 2 points? C'mon.

 

[torchomatic]

Predictors are fun, but I don't bother. Who would have predicted us beating Leeds? Or Forest beating Brum?

I predict I'll be keeping my fingers crossed, touching wood and throwing coins into a wishing well for the next few months.

 

[MatthewWallis]

Hmmmm.... Matthew. West Ham not dropping a single point until the end of season? I don't think so. And Southampton? Only dropping 2 points? C'mon.

I've got Southampton to lose 3 games between now and the end of the season, and I've got West Ham to draw 3 games so that's 6 points dropped

 

[Houchens Head]

I stand corrected Matthew! My shit calculations! Apologies!

 

[Otis]

I am not usually too far out in my predictions.

Hope I'm wrong this time.

 

[torchomatic]

PM me a couple then and I'll get onto Sky Bet.

I am not usually too far out in my predictions.

Hope I'm wrong this time.

 

[Otis]

I did say not too far out.

Undoubtedly I will get a fair bit wrong for sure.

I am quite often out in my preditcions, just not that far wrong ...... if that makes sense.

You also don't have to be much out to be wrong do you.

 

[torchomatic]

True. I do the prediction league on here and I'm rubbish.

 

[Otis]

I always take off my Sky Blue glasses, accept that no team is going to lose every game they ought to lose and accept that no team is going to win every game they ought to win, and also throw one or two surprise results in there too. Think I had Southampton to lose at home to someone like Barnsley.

Those sorts of results do happen.

As I say I'm not too far out, but you only have to turn one City result from a draw to a win to change the picture entirely.

 

[SuperCov]

Ha I was looking for this the other day but my eyes couldn't stare long enough at the new BBC Sport website.

I have Southampton Champions on 91 points, West Ham second on 87, Reading third also on 87 (Odd is that the goal difference is both 27 for West Ham and Reading) Fourth are Cardiff with 85, in Fifth it's Blackpool on 84 and propping up the Play-Offs are Birmingham on 79. The bottom end of the table we have Portsmouth in 24th on 33 points, Bristol City on 42 points, and Millwall on 44 points only in the relegation place due to goal difference. Peterborough also on 44 points in 21st, then follows Doncaster (20th), Forest (19th) and us (dizzy heights of 18th) all on 45 points.

I think it is our goal difference that could be key to us playing Championship or League 1 football next season.

I had us win four, lose four and draw five. Home wins, Peterboro', Palace and Pompey. With a solitary away win of the season away to Leics today.

 

[Otis]

Can see by 5 p.m. today yours becoming totally unstuck.

 

[TalkSkyBlue]

Have us going down on 41 pts as I can't see us picking points up away from home and that we don't look solid enough to win all of our home games - see at least 2 home defeats from Birmingham/Palace/Millwall.

 

[kg82]

Have us going down on 41 pts as I can't see us picking points up away from home and that we don't look solid enough to win all of our home games - see at least 2 home defeats from Birmingham/Palace/Millwall.

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Right, I know people can look through sky blue tinted glasses sometimes but I think for some it works the opposite way too! Not saying we might not end up on 41 points, what I think won't happen though is that Donny pick up 19 more points, Forest and Bristol City both 21 points and Pompey with a whopping 28 points! But that's just my opinion, I think it'll be a lot tighter than that.

 

[Otis]

Okay, so how did everyone do? :thinking about:

 

[torchomatic]

I had us top ten.

 

[kg82]

Okay, so how did everyone do? :thinking about:

Not great!

 

[Otis]

I didn't do badly at all, but terribly at the same time.

Had all 3 teams that were relegated down to be relegated and us on 40 pts and Reading and West Ham to go up.

Terribly of course because I didn't want those predictions for the City to come true.

 

[Leicesterfox2]

Does anyone know where the old bbc predictor has gone or if they know of a replacement

 

[mark82]

Does anyone know where the old bbc predictor has gone or if they know of a replacement

Can't find it or anything like it. Let me know if you find something.